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government of the Sept-Insular republic declared to be restored.

As no preparation for so unexpected a change could have been made by the inhabitants, it has been found convenient by the principal people who are now to assume the government, that the British flag, with that of the republic, shall be continued to fly, until the several departments are filled, and regularity is established.

At Cerigo the greatest resistance was made, but Captain Brenton's skill and resources are such as would surmount

much greater difficulties than they could present.

Letter, Capt. Spranger.

Warrior, Bay of Zante, October 3

SIR,

I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of the commander

in-chief, that, in pursuance of his Lordship's orders, I sailed from Messina on the 23d ult. in company with the sloop Philomel, two large gun-boats, and the transports, with troops under the command of Brigadier-general Oswald, and proceeded to Cephalonia, where we arrived on the 28th, and continued in sight of the island until the 1st of October, during which days we were joined, as had been previously arranged, by the Spartan from Malta, and the Magnificent, Belle Poule, and Kingsfisher, from Corfu, and anchored that night in the bay of Zante, just without reach of the nearest battery.

At day-light on the following morning, the troops assembled alongside the Warrior, and under cover of the Spartan, Belle Poule, and gunboats, who soon silenced the batteries, landed a division of the army in the most perfect order, about three miles from the town, and whilst General Oswald was advancing, Captains Brenton and Brisbane, and the gun-boats conducted by Mr Cole, my first lieutenant, were actively employed in keeping the enemy, who had re-manned their batteries, in check, and covering the second disembarkation, when the whole army moved forward, and closely invested the castle, to which the French had retired from every direction.

A proclamation herewith annexed, was, in the mean time, distributed to the inhabitants, explanatory of our

views, and finding, as was expected, shat they rejoiced in the expulsion of those common disturbers of mankind, I forebore attacking with the ships a strong battery on the Mole Head, which could not be taken, without destroying a great part of the town; and have the satisfaction of adding, that in the course of the day, the enemy, tho' advantageously situated in a most important and commanding position, thought proper to capitulate.

[Here follows a copy of the proclamation addressed to the inhabitants of

Cephalonia, calling upon them to come forward, and share in the labour of expelling the common enemy, holding out and promising that no retrospect will the advantages of British protection, be made for past conduct.]

N. B. The enemy's troops in Cephalonia surrendered on the same terms the 5th of October.

[Here follow the articles of capitu. lation, and the return of guns mounted on the different batteries of the Tower

of Zante.]

SIR,

Warrior, Cephalonia, October 5.

No time was lost, after the surrender of Zante, in establishing a provisional government, re-embarking the troops, and proceeding on the 4th instant with the squadron, augmented by the arrival of the Leonidas, to Cephalonia, the port of which was entered, with the men of war formed in two columns, and the transports in the rear, and taken possession of without any opposition on the part of the enemy, which indeed, from the formidable force I had the honour to command, was perfectly useless.

After having landed the advance the same evening, the General summoned the Fort St George, situated on a steep hill two leagues from the town, which immediately surrendered, on the same terms as those granted to the garrison of Zante, and both islands were fortunately occupied by his Majesty's forces, without any loss whatever, and the Sept-Insular flag, together with the British, to the great joy of the inhabitants, displayed at each.

At Zante we took one small French privateer, and four others of a peculiar

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[Here follows a return of the ordnance, ammunition and stores found in the different batteries of Cephalonia.] Spartan, off the island of Cerigo, Oct. 13. ,SIR,

In my last from Zante, I expressed a hope that we might be able to reduce the island of Cerigo, without any farther reinforcement. This idea was strengthened by papers and plans found upon the late governor of the island made prisoner at Zante. Major Clarke and myself decided upon making our first attack upon the forts in the harbour of Aviemmeno, in order to prevent the escape of any vessels which might be there. The forts are those of St Nicholas and St Joaquin. The first is a stone building mounting nine guns, the latter an embrasure battery of four guns. At four P. M. we ran into the bay. The forts opened upon us, but were both silenced in a few minutes by the ship and schooner, whilst the troops under Major Clarke landing, made several prisoners. The enemy had one killed and one wounded upon this oc.. casion. Only one man of the 35th was wounded on our side.

At day-light on the 10th we weighed, with the intention of immediately attacking the Castle of Capsal, in the bay of Cerigo, but variable winds prevented our getting round. At two P. M. the troops and marines were landed in a small cove in the bay of St. Nicholas, and marched forwards towards the castle, one watch of the Spartan following with three small field-picces. I landed with the troops, that I might be able to command by signal the resources of the ship, without the delay of sending messages, foreseeing that she could not be brought to against The castle whilst the wind continued southerly. The nature of the country rendered our approach to the castle extremely difficult, particularly for the

guns, which did not arrive till ten o'clock on the 11th inst. at the position the troops occupied, a height on a level with the castle, within 400 yards of it. A fire commenced on both sides with guns and musketry, which continued the greatest part of the day. In the evening some rockets were landed from the ship, and in the course of the night some were thrown at the citadel. At day. light, I ordered two 12 pounders to be landed from the ship, but before they could possibly be disembarked, a flag of truce came out with an offer of surrendering, provided the garrison was allowed to return to Corfu. This we refused, and after some deliberation, it surrendered on the same terms as those of Zante and Cephalonia. At ten o'clock our troops took possession of the castle. I am, &c.

M

J. BRENTON.

A letter also appears from the commander of the Philomel, giving an account of the surrender of Ithaca, without firing a gun.

Letter from Captain Clephane.

Acorn, off Trieste, July 28.

Sir, It is with the greatest satisfaction I have to inform you, that the service you did me the honour to put under my direction, has been completely executed, by the boarding and bringing away, under a heavy fire, all the gunboats and merchant vessels which had taken shelter under the castle of Duin, List of vessels captured by Captain Clephane, of the Acorn.

Three gun-boats of the Italian marine, of three 24-pounders, and So tons, complete in ammunition, stores, &c.— Three ditto, of three 18-pounders, and 60 tons, complete in ammunition, stores,. &c. Ten trabaccolas, or coasters, from 10 to 20 tons; one sunk, cargo of flour previously taken out.

An inclosure also appears from Lord, Collingwood, giving an account of a very spirited attack made by the boats of the Excellent, Acorn, and Bustard, covered by the sloops, on a convoy of the enemy, in whick six gun-boats and ten trabaccolas were captured, by Captains West and Clephane. Two marinės were killed in the action, and one seaman has since died of his wounds.

ADDRESS

ADDRESS OF THE CITY OF LONDON TO THE KING.

TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY,

The humble and dutiful Address of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the city of London, in Common Council assembled.

your

"MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREION, "We, the Lord, Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the city of London, in Common Council assembled, approach your Majesty's sacred person with our most lively and unfeigned congratula. tions on the recent anniversary of Majesty's accession to the throne of these realms. With joy and gladness we hailed the day, on which your Majesty entered into the fiftieth year of your Majesty's reign, not only over the persons, but in the hearts of your Majesty's subjects.

"When it pleased the Almighty Ruler of princes to place the sceptre in your Majesty's hands, the brave, free and loyal people, whom your Majesty was ordained to govern, received with pleasure your Majesty's first declaration to the great Council of the nation, that, ⚫ born and educated a Briton, the peculiar happiness of your Majesty's life would ever consist in promoting the welfare of your people, and your Majesty's resolution to maintain our most excellent constitution, both in church and state, with an assurance, that the civil and religious rights of the subject were equally dear to your Majesty with the most valuable prerogatives of the Crown.'

"We experience and acknowledge the blessings of this security to our religion and laws, and that great charter of our liberties, which, in virtue of the glo. rious revolution, your Majesty's illustri ous house was called to defend. Thro' the lapse of nearly half a century, your Majesty has proved yourself, on every occasion, unwearied in the maintainance and practice of all the principles so graciously pledged.

"It is a proud subject for your Majesty's faithful citizens of London to record, that, in the midst of all our unexampled struggles, your Majesty is enabled to say now, as at the commencement of your Majesty's reign, that your Majesty can see, with joy of heart, the December 1809.

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Deeply impressed with gratitude to Almighty God, for the innumerable blessings he has been pleased to pour down upon this highly favoured nation, and more particularly for his wonderful and great goodness, for having conținued his divine protection to your Majesty until this joyful period, we, your Majesty's faithful citizens of London, have implored Heaven to accept our

fervent

prayers, praise, and thanksgiving, and to continue that same providential care and protection to your Majesty for many years yet to come.

"Believe, Sire, that it is the warmest wish and most fervent prayer of your Majesty's citizens of London, that Providence may long continue to this nation so distinguished a mark of divine favour; and that, in the fulness of time, when your Majesty shall be called from your earthly to a celestial crown, the memory and example of so beloved a Sovereign may secure to a grateful people the imitation of your Majesty's virtues, in the successors of your royal House, till time shall be no more.

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Signed, by order of Court,

" HENRY WOODTHORPE."

To which address his Majesty was pleased to return the following most gracious answer :

"I thank you for this testimony of your zeal and affection for me and my government. It has ever been my anxious care to maintain the rights and privileges of every class of my subjects; and it is a great satisfaction to me to reflect, that, in the midst of all our unexampled struggles, and notwithstanding the duration of the wars in which, for the safety of my people, I have been engaged, the commerce and manufactures of my city of London have been carried to an extent unknown at any former period."

They were all received very graciously, and had the honour to kiss his Majesty's hand; after which his Majesty was pleased to create the Lord Mayor a Baronet, and conferred the honour of Knighthood on William Flomer, Esq. Alderman.

SCOT

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CIRCUIT INTELLIGENCE.
Perth, Sept. 15.

LORDS CULLEN AND HERMAND.

DAVID ANDERSON, a young man, resi

denter in Lochgalley, accused of feloniously entering a park where some cattle were pasturing, and there stabbing and killing an ox, the property of a farmer in the neighbourhood, and thereafter selling the skin and part of the carHe pled guilty, declaring that he committed the deed with another man, who had since fled into England. The Jury found him Guilty. He was sentenced to be transported for seven years.

case.

John Ferguson, papermaker in the parish of Auchterarder, was put to the bar, indicted for pushing his horse at full speed up the South Street of Perth, in May last, and riding over an old woman of the name of M'Leish, so as to occasion her death. A great many witnesses on the part of the crown, and a few on the part of the pannel, were called and examined. The evi.

dence did not go to prove any mali cious intention, but only a degree of culpable and dangerous negligence on the part of the pannel. The Jury brought in a verdict of Not Guilty; but the Chancellor stated it to be the unanimous wish of the Jury, that the pannel should receive an admonition from the Court, because they considered him as faulty. The pannel was assoilzied, and dismissed from the bar.

William Forbes and John Cameron were indicted for an assault on a postboy, in the neighbourhood of Callendar. Mr Hagart, their counsel, objected to the trial going on, because the criminal letters were quite informal. The De. pute Advocate acquiesced in the objection, and it was sustained by the Court. The pannels were recommitted on a new warrant.

Charles Pennycook, accused of forging bills, was outlawed for not appearing. He broke the jail of Perth some time ago. The Depute Advocate complained of this 'circumstance as a

culpable negligence on the part of the magistrates, and the Judge administered a reproof from the bench.

James M'Donald, in the parish of Strathdon, and Peter Stephen in the parish of Crathie, accused of deforcing revenue officers, were outlawed for not appearing, and their bail bonds forfeited.

James M'Hardy, and Ronald M'Gregor, were also indicted for the deforcement of revenue officers. The diet against the former was deserted pro loca et tempore, and he was recommitted on a new warrant. The latter was outlawed for not appearing.

Isobel M'Kay and Jean Allan, two young women in Cupar of Angus, were put to the bar, charged with breaking open the door of a mantuamaker's house in that town, and stealing therefrom a quantity of wearing apparel.Both pannels pled Guilty to the charge, and the jury having returned a verdict of Guilty, upon their own confession, the Judge, after a very impressive and suitable address, sentenced them to be

imprisoned for twelve months in the jail of Perth.

This finishes the business of the northern circuit.

Inverary, Oct. 2.--LORD JUSTICE CLERK.

Constantine O'Neal, accused of mur. der. The Jury brought in a verdict of Not Guilty, and he was dismissed from the bar.

Malcolm Livingstone, accused of deforcing the officers of his Majesty's re

venue.

Several of the most material witnesses being absent, the diet was deserted pro loco et tempore, and he was re committed upon a new warrant.

Margaret M Phadien, accused of murder, was brought to the bar, when Mr John Cunningham, advocate, stated that the pannel had been for a considerable time past, and was at the present moment, in a state of derangement of mind, and the same being proved to the satis. faction of the Court, she was recommit. ted to jail, therein to be detained till liberated

berated in due course of law, or till her father shall find sufficient caution and surety to keep her in safe custody, to the satisfaction of the Magistrates of In. verary, himself under a penalty of zol. sterling, and two sureties, under a penalty of 20%. sterling; and, on such caution being found, the Magistrates of Inverary are ordained to deliver over the said Margaret M'Phadien to her father. The Circuit Court was opened at Ayr by Lord Craig on the 11th of September; there was no business before the Court.

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.

On Tuesday, Oct. 10. came on the trial of Robert Fergusson, papermaker at Airthrey Mills, accused of counterfeiting the Excise stamp and officer's subscription on the wrappers of the paper manufactured by him, with a view of defrauding the revenue. Some objections to the relevancy of the indictment having been repelled, the trial proceeded, when a number of witnesses were examined for the Crown, by whom the fact of the pannel having a number of reams of paper with forged stamps in his possession, and also his having vended the same, was clearly established. Some witnesses were examined in excul. pation, the tendency of whose evidence went to throw suspicion on the charac. ter of the prisoner's son, and to shew that the pannel, at the time charged in the indictment, was incapable, through disease, of committing the crime laid to his charge. The jury were charged by Mr Solicitor-General Boyle for the Crown, and in a most ingenious speech by Mr Jeffrey for the pannel; the Lord Justice Clerk summed up the evidence. Next day the jury returned their verdict, all in one voice finding the pannel guilty of having in his possession, in the month of July last, certain reams of paper, having upon the wrappers thereof counterfeit marks and stamps, and of vending the same, knowing them to be forged. A plea, urged by the pannel's counsel in arrest of judgment, was overruled; and, after a suitable exhortation from the Lord Justice Clerk, he was adjudged to be transported beyond seas for seven years.

On Tuesday, Oct. 31. came on the trial of William Oliver, for robbing the mail. The libel states, that, on Wednesday the 28th of June last, the pannel,

being overtaken on the road from Peebies to Edinburgh, by the carriage which conveys the mail between these places, took an inside passage, seized the mail bag, and took out of it and stole all the letters that were for the Edinburgh delivery. The prisoner having pleaded guilty, Mr Solicitor-General restricted the charge to an arbitrary punishment. The jury brought in a verdict of Guilty, and the Court were unanimously of opinion, that the very lowest degree of punishment, which they could possibly award, was that of transportation beyond seas for fourteen years. The Lord Justice Clerk, on passing sentence, expressed himself in very strong terms on the serious consequences which must necessarily arise from a robbery of the mail, a crime for which the law had provided, and most wisely provided, a capital punishment, as there was no offence which so deeply affected the security of commerce, the credit of individuals, and the peace and comfort of private families.

On Monday Dec. 11. came on the trial of John Armstrong, accused of breaking into the shop of William Robertson, merchant in Dalkeith, on the evening of the 31st October last, and stealing therefrom the following articles: Two pieces of superfine black cloth, two pieces of superfine blue ditto, two pieces West of England ditto, two pieces black silk florentine, one imitation shawl, ten pieces thread edging, ten pieces French cambric, not entire, five pieces ditto, uncut, nine new silver watches, and one old ditto.

The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty; and some objections stated against the relevancy having been over-ruled by the Court, the following evidence on the part of the public prosecutor was adduced.

Christian Robertson, wife of William Robertson, merchant in Dalkeith, deponed, That on the night the robbery was committed, she, along with the apprentice, carefully shut up the shop, about half past eight o'clock, by locking the doors, and that the locks were tried after this took place; that she carried the keys to her dwelling house, which is immediately above the shop, and deposited them in her own drawers, which she also locked up; and about 11 o'clock, when her husband pro

posed

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